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I've certainly never encountered a web app that hashes locally before sending. I suppose it could work if this was at the account creation or password managemen

I've certainly never encountered a web app that hashes locally before sending. I suppose it could work if this was at the account creation or password management stages, but you couldn't implement it at the login stage for obvious reasons. I'm having trouble imagining what scenario client-side hashing would protect against.

consp 9y ago
Man in the middle attacks fetching for plaintext passwords -- edit: using a KDF would improve it even more.
- anonymouz 9y ago
  If the client only sends the hash to the server, a MitM also only needs to capture the hash.
- croon 9y ago
  Sure, but if they've MITM:ed your trusted certs, aren't you already boned in so many ways?